The Best of Every š§
20+ most popular Every š§ articles, as voted by our community.
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Stop Being Who You Arenāt
And find your āpeopleā along the way
«This isnāt a how-to guide on how to make friends though: Consider it a kind of metaprotocol that you can apply to help bring the right kind of people into your life.Ā »
When You Plateau, So Does Your Company
A founder's guide to expanding your comfort zone
«Clarify whatās important Ramp up the costs Build discomfort tolerance Create commitment scaffolding»
Every š§ on Anxiety
The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System
Embrace āstate over storyā to shift your thoughts and overcome anxiety
«There are various cues to watch for to see if your body is downshifting gears into parasympathetic. The most obvious is a spontaneous sigh response,»
Will Worrying Make You Better?
Japeth Mast / Unsplash Content warning: stress, and anxiety.In fourth grade my teacher referred to me in a report card as a ānutty professor.ā The verdict from the elementary academy was clear: Head…
«I developed a strategy: worry. If I knew a test was coming up, I would deliberately think about all of the bad things that would happen if I didnāt do well on it. Iād imagine getting the grade, and how my parents would react to it. Iād imagine what it would mean about my future, or what it would mean about the kind of person I was.Ā »
Every š§ on Artificial Intelligence
Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future?
I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3āand started asking it questions
Every š§ on Creator Economy
How Memes Control Everything
The Economics of Belief Transmission
«Memes are essentially just patterns we imitate to achieve some desired effect.»
Every š§ on Perfectionism
Perfectionism: Why and How to Beat It
A Guide to Doing Great Work without Fixating on Flawlessness
«rigidity is the problem, not the desire to do great work»
Every š§ on PKM
The End of Organizing
How GPT-3 will turn your notes into an *actual* second brain
«thereās a lot of value locked up in what weāve collected over the years, if we could just figure out how to use it.»
GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I've Ever Used
My slow and steady progression to living out the plot of the movie 'Her'
«You donāt read through your old entries that often, so the act of writing down your thoughts and experiences doesnāt compound in the way that it should.»
Every š§ on Startups
A New Kind of Startup is Coming
Smaller, faster, cheaper, weirder
«itās exciting to think that AI might be able to do almost anything, but it feels guided more by magical thinking than by concrete observations.»
It Is Always Time to Build
Interest rates do not equal innovation rates
«interest rates made highly risky»
Every š§ on Storytelling
Want to Improve Your Public Speaking? Develop Your Awareness Skills
Practical tips to help you connect more deeply with others
Becoming a Better Storyteller
Actionable ideas from an event with Adam Davidson
«Who is the protagonist (maybe itās you, maybe itās someone else)Ā Where and when are they?Ā What do they want?Ā Why does the outcome matter?»
Every š§ on Tokenomics
Tokenomics 101: The Basics of Evaluating Cryptocurrencies
Supply, Demand, and Memes. Lots of Memes.
Tokenomics 103: Utility
Even if a token has a great supply model, it still needs a good reason to exist and for people to hold it.
Every š§ on Writing
GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I've Ever Used
My slow and steady progression to living out the plot of the movie 'Her'
«I started in the OpenAI playgroundāa text box where you input a prompt that tells GPT-3 how you want it to behave, and then interact with it:»
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How to Process Negative Feedback
Tips for dealing with criticismāwhen you agree with it, and when you donāt
«In these more educational environments, where no one expects me to be perfect, negative feedback is reframed. Itās not criticism; itās teaching.»
In Defense of the Unoptimized Life
Give yourself the space to be inspired
«we get so caught up in the daily grind, in the pursuit of the next step of the ladder, that we miss the point of being.»
How to Improve Your Creative Thinking
The science of creativityāand how to unlock it
«Creativity is the ability to produce an artifact or an idea that is both novel and useful given a particular social context»
Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe
It's a state, not an outcome.
«People think focus is about the thing youāre focused on. But itās actually about putting aside the big shiny, exciting things youĀ couldĀ be working on.»
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